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A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. Whewell.

To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

i are common species which suck blood; Trichodectes scalaris eats the hair. -- Cattle plague, the rinderpest; called also Russian cattle plague. -- Cattle range, or Cattle run, an open space through which cattle may run or range. [U. S.] Bartlett. -- Cattle show, an exhibition of domestic animals with prizes for the…

al. Cautious feeling for another's pain. Byron. Be swift to hear; but cautious of your tongue. Watts.

than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used.

Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue. [Written also Keltic.]

The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestles were anointed among the ancient Romans.

more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.

Not mapped; uncharted; vague. Barlow.

or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. To tame a shrew, and charm her chattering tongue. Shak.

he saddle of a harness, over which a checkrein is looped. -- Check list, a list or catalogue by which things may be verified, or on which they may be checked. -- Check nut (Mech.), a secondary nut, screwing down upon the primary nut to secure it. Knight. -- Check valve (Mech.), a valve in the feed pipe of a boiler t…

dened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel. Knight. Chill and fever, fever and ague.

riends. L'Estrange. To chop logic, to dispute with an affected use of logical terms; to argue sophistically.

e photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.

urrounded by a ridle or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillæ, near the base of the tongue.

To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.

That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell. Clapper rail (Zoöl.), an Americam species of rail (Rallus scepitans).

To abuse with the tongue; to revile; to scold.

To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue. I see thou dost but clatter. Spenser.